The Spirited Sixth Sense ...

NoChesterHester

NoChesterHester

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Goofyernmost said:
Very good point that I forgot to mention. Change the name... it is no longer Future World and that name is misleading to say the least. Right now it is present and past world. It needs a new identity. I wish I was clever enough to think of a name, but the more I think about it there isn't one single thing in there that isn't either Yesterday or Today.

Wanna have a survey here on line with suggestions for a new name for Future World (keep it clean). Maybe we could e-mail the powers that be to consider a new name.
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Disney Imagineering has long since given up on the "future." They now sell nostalgia.

Maybe it should be more like "Industryville" and "World Showcase."
 
Soarin' Over Pgh

Soarin' Over Pgh

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Goofyernmost said:
Very good point that I forgot to mention. Change the name... it is no longer Future World and that name is misleading to say the least. Right now it is present and past world. It needs a new identity. I wish I was clever enough to think of a name, but the more I think about it there isn't one single thing in there that isn't either Yesterday or Today.

Wanna have a survey here on line with suggestions for a new name for Future World (keep it clean). Maybe we could e-mail the powers that be to consider a new name.
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Sadly the only one that comes to mind is already a well known website. Yesterland.
 
CDavid

CDavid

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Goofyernmost said:
Very good point that I forgot to mention. Change the name... it is no longer Future World and that name is misleading to say the least. Right now it is present and past world. It needs a new identity. I wish I was clever enough to think of a name, but the more I think about it there isn't one single thing in there that isn't either Yesterday or Today.

Wanna have a survey here on line with suggestions for a new name for Future World (keep it clean). Maybe we could e-mail the powers that be to consider a new name.
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Uh, No. Put the future back in Future World, and then the name just sort of fits. It doesn't need a new identity - it needs its true identity restored.

Besides, Disney can let the place stagnate with a new name just as easily as they can with the existing one.
 
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There is a George Kalogridis sighting. I have been seeing him on the Walt Disney World special on Destination America called Walt Disney World Hotels. The special is for the WDW hotels and My Magic Plus.

Yes, George is promoting mymagic plus on the special and the special is mentioning a new guest experiences with it being mymagic plus.
 
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ford91exploder

ford91exploder

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wdwfan4ver said:
There is a George Kalogridis sighting. I have been seeing on the Walt Disney World special on Destination America called Walt Disney World Hotels. The special is for the WDW hotels and My Magic Plus.

Yes, George is promoting mymagic plus on the special and the special is mentioning a new guest experiences with it being mymagic plus.
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Are you sure it's him and not a CGI avatar...
 
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wdwfan4ver

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asianway said:
When they s***can George & Jim who will take their place? Colglazier?
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It could also be Dan Cockerell taking George's place. I know DAN has been the Vice President of Epcot, the General Manager of Resorts at WDW, and currently the Vice President of DHS based on WDW Positions. I am going by his linkedin profile based on a google search I did on him. Dan's resume at WDW does make him a candidate to be the next President of WDW.
 
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Soarin' Over Pgh

Soarin' Over Pgh

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Mr Bill said:
It's me, I'm the next resort President. All the MM+ touchpoints are being recycled into a float for the new night parade. Green and flashing blue lights everywhere!
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You can make it into a family friendly Russian roulette.

Each person scans their magic band and whoever doesn't turn the Mickey head green on the first go gets a fast pass+ for stitches great escape. Everyone else wins their sanity.

I'm definitely voting for you if you implement the above game.
 
tirian

tirian

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wdwfan4ver said:
It could also be Dan Cockerell taking George's place. I know DAN has been the Vice President of Epcot, the General Manager of Resorts at WDW, and currently the Vice President of DHS based on WDW Positions. I am going by his linkedin profile based on a google search I did on him. Dan's resume at WDW does make him a candidate to be the next President of WDW.
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He'd theoretically be okay, but George should have been good too. Neither one can do much without a new CEO who "gets" Disney and a company restructure.
 
tirian

tirian

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ford91exploder said:
You bring up a GREAT point, That being the disconnect between our failing K-12 system and the world class universities we have in the US, I spent more than a decade as an administrator and considered an academic officer at Harvard yes one of thousands. My favorite time of year was always Freshman Weekend or as we called it "Startup" any you would see kids from EVERYWHERE converging on the Yard.

My personal opinion is because the K-12 system is largely under political control so schools are political footballs but since the majority of the selective universities are private and compete for faculty and students excellence instead of political expedience becomes the deciding factor governing the policies of the institution.

The rest of the world the university system is generally under government control and like all government agencies tend toward mediocrity, There are of course exceptions Cambridge and Oxford in the UK, Uppsala, some of the ancient French and German universities, nearly all of which predate their governments by hundreds of years.
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Quoted for truth. Most of our universities, even the public ones, hold to high academic standards. It's our public school system that's been falling apart for decades. But that's a completely different subject.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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CDavid said:
Uh, No. Put the future back in Future World, and then the name just sort of fits. It doesn't need a new identity - it needs its true identity restored.

Besides, Disney can let the place stagnate with a new name just as easily as they can with the existing one.
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They already tried that and it didn't work. What makes you think that it will now? I know that is what a number of us would like to see, but, since that ain't gonna happen, let's try and find a way to make what is there work.
 
WDW1974

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Spirited Monday Musings:

Thought the Oscars were OK, nothing more, but I wish the fanboi chorus would just give it a rest, Let it Go and stop singing. Leave that for the experts like @Lee.

Also, let's have a moment of silence for the tree that fell in Lee's yard last night. He didn't hear it, neither did DD, but it -- shockingly -- fell nonetheless. Thus answering the age old question.

The Black List is twice the show House of Cards is. Sorry, I love Kevin Spacey as much as anyone, but the writing on that show is rushed, inane and just plain not very good. I guess I'm supposed to believe Netflix is hipper than a stodgy old network like NBC, but I don't. Sorry to all my 20-something friends and industry pals who always fall in love with what they are told to.

I am psyched for the premiere of Resurrection. No ABC trailer tease of a new show has got my attention like this since Lost.

BTW, was it a coincidence that The Walking Dead put on one of the weakest episodes ever and one that could be called 'filler'? Sorry, I like Darryl ... and Beth is cute enough and she can sing real puurrrty like Lee ... but a whole episode devoted to them and walkers of a Georgia golf club was waaaay too much and didn't do a thing to propel story.

But we were talking of trees and Oscars.

I didn't feel there were any shocks at all. And without seeing all of the films, including 12 Years a Slave, I just can't say whether any great injustices were done. I thought Ellen did OK as host. I find her to be genuine and charming, but that doesn't always work in the award show genre. I do recall one year when she hosted the Emmys and we were very close to the stage, and they kept cutting her off and finally the director chopped her ending. We just sat watching her throw the mic backstage and curse, which no one ever picked up on.

Judith Light is one great actress who most folks here likely don't know at all or know her as the punchline to every Tony Danza one-liner on 80s sitcom 'Who's The Boss?' ... she's also a very nice and classy lady.

OK, so why is it exactly that Disney is sending flash drives to people to 'explain' NGE? They can't simply go online and read info or download it? Yes, I think there are nefarious reasons but again, I am also one who doesn't understand how Disney can work with a company that specializes in facial recognition and claim they aren't using that tech in their parks (To be fair, they don't make that claim OR any claims. They just ignore the subject as do reporters like Jason Garcia who supposedly cover them.)

So, this really happened to me today ... a woman tried to pick me up in a supermarket on the frozen foods aisle. That Spirited aura is very intoxicating, indeed.

There are very few months in the year when I understand why people want to be in Florida. March is one of those months ... every year!

Remember when Bob Iger touted that there would be new stuff in the parks from the Star Wars galaxy? I am sure he meant crappy merchandise in the shops.

BTW, anyone see how animated Bob and Willow were last night? (yes, that was a joke!)

Great to see Frozen cross the $1 billion barrier at the box office. It is a wonderful film. But I also wouldn't put it anywhere near my top 10 Disney animated films ... or top 20 if we include Pixar films.

I'd also like to hear fanbois stop blathering on about how they'd like to see the IP take over EPCOT's Norway pavilion. It's that type of stupidity that festers at WDI and TDO and we really do not need fans telling Disney that the dumb, cheap and lazy way is what they want.

The Dish on Disney's new agreement: http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20140303-913602.html
 
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